Subject: current line obscured

From: Mikhail Gorvits <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 14:58:14 -0800

Dear Pine Users,
	I use pine on a college unix system, to which I telnet from my 
home computer.  The problem I run into is the obscured current line.  
Whenever I move my cursor to any given line, in most of the interactive 
pine screens, the cursor, instead of blinking at the start of the line, 
brings with it a bar (of the same color as the text) which obscures the 
whole line.  This means, for example, that I can't see the current 
message information in the inbox, and have to move to the next, or 
previous, message to read it.  I also can't see the status line or the 
command keys in the command lines at the bottom.  More importantly, I 
can't read the line that pops up at the bottom when pine requires more 
information from me or doesn't understand my command.  Thus I don't know 
what pine is telling me, besides the few basic communications that I am 
familiar with.
	I would really appreciate if somebody who thinks they know what 
this problem could be would contact me.  Is this a function of pine or my 
telnet program?  As I am not a subscriber to the list, please reply to me 
directly at  [email-masked]
	I thank all of you for your attention and apologize for the 
distraction.
					Sincerely,
					David Gorvits

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 15:27:13 +0800 (GMT)

> 	I thank all of you for your attention and apologize for the 

	The fact that your "highlight" (bar) color is the same color as
the characters is normally a setting in your telnet client.

	If you can't figure out how to fix your telnet client then try
going to setup/config and setting:

            [ ]  assume-slow-link

	It will replace the highlight with ">".

	Ed

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